Man I'm looking forward to Havili making a break this weekend and watching Aaron Smith chase 'After David'

@Salacious-Crumb said in RWC squad. Who's in, who's out?:

@kiwiinmelb

If this doesn’t make me get a FB account, nothing will. But nope, never going to happen. I’ll stick with The Fern.

No need to have two different sites with fake news and misinformed opinions.

Just reporting back as have now come out of hungover state.

Rugby was great. Didn't view the whole game and can over only a few MVP votes.

First off....the stag on the stag doo. He didn't know anything about the trip, got picked up thursday from auck flown to chch had a night out. Friday we had a pub crawl road trip to Dunedin (he thought it was to Q-town as he thought he got inside word from someone). When we got to Dunedin he was that gone he thought we were in Qtown.
MVP's of the Friday: 3 Points: Random Maori guy at the pub in Ashburton doing 'magic tricks' for everyone including smoking a dobbie with his nostril.
2 points: Akira Ioane: Loved shouting pretty much the whole bar (was out with Laumape....both proving great team culture before a game).
1: The girl we got kicked out for being too thirsty and walking up to everyone in our group and trying to get them to go home with her (literally her first words).

Saturday: 10am beers followed by Hens party dancing lesson at stilitos for the stag and lappy after. Back to studentville for some backyard and drinking on the street then Octy and then rugby.
Stag did well with his '4 more years banner' Wallabies jersey and face painted jumping up anytime anyone scored.
MVP points: 3: The only hot stripper I think Dunedin has ever had
2: Goodhue and the other guys on debut still wearing their All Blacks Caps out in town (mention to him for looking like it was getting him a couple of birds)
1: Akira, again at the bar on Saturday buying big rounds. Recognised me off my face and chucked a drink my way.

@Rembrandt said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:

I don't think your average fern reader is likely to be influenced too much by celeb wankery..

I didn't know there was such a thing as an average ferner... Just a bunch of above average athletes struck down by alcohol, girls and gambling and some mysterious injury just before they cracked it into the professional rugby ranks.

@Stargazer Looking forward to seeing him sign with Toulon and 3 games in the owner saying this isnt the Dagg I saw in the 2011 RWC highlights I watched....

Lock/6/8 (pretty sure thats what most locks say when they want to not play lock)

Loved my footy growing up played most of the age group reps from 9-12 years old. Got to play with and against some really good players growing up in HB in what was a pretty good period for HB rugby.

Played 3 years of 1st 15. Coach had sat me down in 5th form and outlined what big aspirations he had for me and how he thought I could be the next big name to add to his Taine Randall/John Timu list. God knows where he got that idea from.... I was always really fit but never had any type of acceleration or top-end speed. I could just keep up my average sprint for a whole game. I just generally looked like I was more places because I was alright at reading the game. I think he was excited because I was 189cm at 15 and he thought I would still grow and then fill out my frame (was 72kg)....

I certainly filled out the frame but didn't grow another CM taller. Plodded along after that and career highlights were few and far between. Literally the list is 50+ games for a mediocre 1st 15, playing a colts game for Tech while on high school holidays and getting play of the day over future World Cup Try scorer Karne Hesketh, and making a Canadian Provincial Training squad a day after I landed off the basis that 'he's a kiwi so he must be alright'.

After high school just played a bit at uni and then here and there overseas while travelling. Had much more success as a physio than a player haha having worked with some cool teams in both rugby and other sports.

Rugby is a sport I watch now basketball and golf and the sports I play...or attempt to.

I haven't been on here in a while. Seems like you have all lost your marbles.

1. Beaver

Day light
Day light
A leap year

2. DC

Im putting a lot of eggs in the Izzy to bankrupt the ARU before the weekend. Its gods will.

Tonga. They just beat Australia at league and they also have the undisputed best flag bearer.

@Higgins about time I say.

I am hoping they do a half-time segment on ex greats from both schools. Always dreamed of being in a piece with Jonah and Beaver.

@Higgins the main drive to go there was cost saving. I got to use my tech socks for school games. Basically paid for itself.

I'm watching the game but what's most amazing is the box score with no suns in double figures.

@Nepia said in Hawke's Bay Club Rugby 2022:

@Magpie_in_aus said in Hawke's Bay Club Rugby 2022:

Have been flat out and MIA from the fern. Great to see from skimming through the posts Tech is still the best club with the best players and supporters. Likely best looking and most modest too. Couple 69 point wins very nicccce as well.

Ah, so Tech fans are the Cantabs of HB.

@Nepia said in Hawke's Bay Club Rugby 2022:

@Magpie_in_aus said in Hawke's Bay Club Rugby 2022:

Have been flat out and MIA from the fern. Great to see from skimming through the posts Tech is still the best club with the best players and supporters. Likely best looking and most modest too. Couple 69 point wins very nicccce as well.

Ah, so Tech fans are the Cantabs of HB.

Na not at all where did you get that idea from? I spoke with Ash, Hugh, Josh Keys, Tom Simpson they also didn't know what you meant.

I thought gallen had it in the ninth. Tenth round was a heavy weight trying to do a mayweather and avoid getting hit.

If SBW doesn't get the Jake Paul fight I really hope him and Gallen go at it.

Have been flat out and MIA from the fern. Great to see from skimming through the posts Tech is still the best club with the best players and supporters. Likely best looking and most modest too. Couple 69 point wins very nicccce as well.

@canefan
I meant because they both can't shoot three's. Na fairs fair Simmons is full of talent and no effort, RT never lacked effort.

As a first for the fern 'I stand corrected'

Crazy stat.

Ben Simmons has the exact same 4th quarter points in his last 4 games for the 76ers as he does his last 4 games for the Nets...The nets played with 6 and still couldn't win.

Ben 'Reuben Thorne' Simmons

@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:

@nepia said in Movie review thread...:

I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?

A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.

The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.

This place is always crying woke.

Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.

Hawkes Bay is overrated

If every province was a movie, you know Hawkes Bay would be the most profitable (including every sequel).

Also would have the award every province wants...

@crazy-horse said in Zac Guildford:

@frank said in Zac Guildford:

An ordinary person doing what he did would have been in jail long ago.

I am not so sure about that.

Agree. Been in jail a long time ago for what? Until the assault everything was him being a dick but not overly criminal just newsworthy because he was high profile. This stuff however would be jail worthy. Also there are some other stuff that happened around this time that hasn't come out yet which may be the tipping point.

@kiwiwomble maybe that is why she retired. Her husband found out about her fiancee. She would have got away with it if it wasn't for the blasted fern and their meddling dog.